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Separately, the Supreme Court Monday allowed the Obama administration to keep secret photographs and videotapes of a Guantánamo Bay detainee identified as the would-be 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

The justices turned away the appeal from the Center for Constitutional Rights, which argued the release of videotapes and photographs of the interrogation and confinement of Mohammed al Qahtani would serve the public interest.

The human rights group accused the FBI and military personnel of subjecting Qahtani to isolation and aggressive interrogation techniques in 2002.

The federal appeals court in New York agreed with the government that images of al-Qahtani could be used by anti-American extremists as propaganda to recruit members if made public.

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